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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I. I. R. BLUMENBERG 86. H. W. WHITING. HYDROGARBON VAPOR GENERATOR AND DIAN TON BURNER.

Patented June 5, 1883.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shet 2. I. R. BLUMENBERG & H. W. WHITING'. HYDROGARBON VAPOR GENERATOR AND DIANTON BURNER.

No. 278,860. Patented June 5,1883;

W iZZIesseX (/5 f aw! fd Zf UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL R. BLUMENBERG AND HENRY XV, VVHITING, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO THE HYDRO-CARBON BURNER AND FUEL COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

HYDROCARBON-VAPOR GENERATOR ANDDIANTON BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,860, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed January 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that we, ISRAEL R. BLUMEN- BERG and HENRY W. \VHITING, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in that class of hydrocarbon generators and burners better designated as the Hydrocarbon Generator IO and Burner, with a moistening device which we call a Dianton Burner or Dianton Hy- (llOCEtlbOll-Bllllll, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

I 5 Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hydrocarbon-vapor generators and burners, with a moistening device which we call a dianton burner; 7 and it consists, first, in introducing into and passing 2o longitudinally through the mingling-chamber, within a conical cylindrical hydrocarbon-vapor generator having a small neck and terminating in a hemispherical or saucer-shaped head, a steam conduit or duct, being a metal pipe se 2 5 cured by one end in the base of thegeneratoi connecting with a stearmpipe, and by the other in the burner-tip, and in heating said pipe by steam, whereby the oil and steam injected into said chamber are the more thoroughly mingled and vaporized.

It also consists in extending said steam pipe or conduit out through the burner-tip beyond the intersecting point of the jets of vapor at sufficient distanceto throw the jet of moist 3 5 steam onto the crown-sheet of the boiler or metal part of furnaces, &c., to prevent it be ing burned or destroyed by the intense hydro carbon-flame.

It further consists in constructing the vapor 4o generating chamber tapering from a large base to a contracted neck, and surmounting the same with a flaring or hemispherically-formed head terminating in a broad numerously-perforated burner-tip, said chamber having steam 4 5 and oil induction pipes and a steam-duct passing therethrough.

It also consists in arranging the perforations or vapor-exits in the burner-tip so that they )or enerator and burner.

'sponding parts.

are directed from the interior outward toward a common center short of the steam-exit pipe.

Figure l is an elevation of the complete va Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, showing the induction-pipes and their reduced nozzles, steamconduit, check-valves, base-plate, generating 5 5 chamber within the cylinder, the removable burner-top, perforated burner-tip, and perforations therein. Fig. 3 is a plan of the baseplate with the cylinder removed, showing the inter-exits of the several pipes. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the vapor generator and burner, with a portion broken away to show the concave burner-tip and its perforations and steamconduit. Fig. is an elevation of the vapor generator and burner, with a portion broken away to show the convex burner-tip and its perforations, together with the steam-conduit. Fig. 6 is a plan of the burner tip, showing the perforations and the steam pipe or conduit in the center.

Similar letters of reference indicate come a is a steam conduit or pipe, of metal, ex tending from a steam-boiler to and through the vapor-generator base 0, through and to beyond the burner-tip 71. a. is a supply-pipe thereto, having one end secured in the base of the vapor-generator and the other attached to a steanrboiler. f is a valve therein.

bis a steam-induction pipe secured in the base 0 of 'the vapor-generator, and connected with a steam-boiler, (not shown,) by which steam is injected into the vapor-generator in a quantity su'liicient to serve the purpose, the flow whereof is regulated by the valve f. S 5

c is the-base of the vapor-generator e, per forated with apertures or channels- I) d, for the introduction of jets of steam and oil into the chamber a, the outer ends of which channels are provided with a female screw for se 0 curing the ends of steam and oil induction pipes b and (1, respectively; also perforated with another channel provided with a female screw at each end, in and by which the ends of the steam-duct c and pipe (1. are secured.

d is an oil-induction pipe, one end secured are introduced and mingled into hydrocarbon vapor by being brought together. The chamher 0 is within a metal conical cylindrical shell,

9, smaller at the upper than at the base end.

9 is a hemispherical or saucer-shaped vaporburner top, secured by a screw or other suitable device on the smaller end of the conical cylinder-shell e.

h is a perforated burner-tip, secured in the flaring side of the burner-top, in which and i are perforations for the escape of the generated vapor for burning.

The base 0 of the vapor-generator c is a so me what solid circular piece or disk of metal, par tially cone-shaped, with a screw-thread on the periphery thereof, on which is securedthe larger end of the conical cylinder vapor-generator c. This base 0 is perforated with apertures or channels Z) (1, through which the steam and oil for generating hydrocarbon vapor is introduced. In the outer ends of these channels b d are female screws, into which steam and oil induction pipes I) dare respectively secured in place. The base 0 has also another channel or aperture having a female screw at each endthereof, into which, on the one side, is secured a steam conduit or duct, 0, and on the other side an iiiductioirpipe, a, for carrying steam from asteam-boiler to and t-hroughthe vapor-generator and discharging it beyond, as hereinafter shown. The shell e is a conicallyshaped cylinder, considerably smaller at the neck 6* than at the base, to check and retard the flow and escape of the generated vapor from the chamber 6 until it has had an opportunity to become thoroughly mingled, surmounted by a hemispherical]y-for1ned head, terminating in a broad flat convex or concave burnertip, 71, provided with numerous perforations for the exit of the hydrocarbon vapor, through which it is injected into the flame. \Vithin the shell 6' in the chamber 0 the hydrocarbon vapor is generated, as hereinafter indicated, and it is ejected through the exits i in the burn er-tip h. The hemispheriCally-formed head g, by a screw or other suitable arrangement, is secured on the neck 0 of the cylinder 6', and swells or bulges therefrom to the burner-tip h.

The perforated burner-tip b may be of any suitable material that will resist the action of the flame. It is perforated in such a way that the perforations i tend toward one common center, may be flat, convex, or concave, and it has a perforation through which the steampipe a passes, and in which it is secured, and it may be secured in place by any suitable or appropriate process known. The metal steam conduit or pipe u, of any material and diameter, passing longitudinally through the hydro f respectively.

7 j et of fresh carbon mingling chamber 6, is by one end secured in the burner-base c in the passage con necting with the steam-pipe a and by the other in the burner-tip 71, the end (6 thereof eX- tending to such a distance beyond the ming-.

ling-point of the vapor from the burner-tip 74, that a jet of steam therefrom may be ejected onto the crown-sheet of a boiler, or upon other substance exposed to the deleterious or injurious effect of hydrocarbon-flame, without commingling therewith.

Steam is injected into the chamber 6 through the pipe I) and orifice b, and oil is injected therein through the pipe (I and orifice d, the flow of each being governed by the valves f The oil and steam so inj eeted therein are, by mingling and being brought in contact with the steam-conduit a, immediately converted into hydrocarbon vapor; but to insure a more thorough vaporization thereof a steam is introduced and constantly passed through the steam-conduit a, secured longitudinally through the chamber 6 and the body of the hydrocarbons, which conduit, being heated by steam to ahigh temperature, readil reduces the hydrocarbons to a burningvapor, which may then be ignited on and burned at the burner-tip h.

One of the great object-ions made to hydrocarbon-flame for heating purposes has been that the intensity of the heat soon burns out and destroys any metal with which it is neces sarily brought in contact. To overcome this diflieulty, and to avoid, or rather to prevent, the destruction of the crown-sheets of boilers and the metal portions of furnaces or other things that may be exposed to the hydrocarboil-flame, we have extended the end a of the pipe a through the burner-tip to a point beyond which the escaping vapors commingle, and through it eject an uninterrupted flood of moist steam directly upon the crownsheet of the boiler and the exposed part of the metal of boilers, furnaces, &c., in advance of the flame, in such a way as to keep itconstantly wet or in humid condition, which moisure, while preventing the metal from destruction by burning, may be resolved into superheated-steam vapor, andby mingling with the hydrocarbonflame from the burner be consumed. By this arrangement and method-that is, by coir stantly keeping the parts exposed to the flame moist with steam, as under a great perspiration, while protecting the metal from destruc tionwe increase the volume of our flame and the intensity of our heat-in other words, we make the means employed to protect the metal from burning contribute to generate power.

It will be observed that the boiler or metal of furnaces, &c., is bathed in steam, and that by a flame of hydrocarbon the steam is con verted into thin vapor on and about the metal, where it is consumed, and thus converting the metal into a burner, which, under the wellrecognized principle that a hydrocarbon-flame is not as destructive at the point of combus- I (I, where, by the combined action of the heated pipe to and hot steam, the oil is converted into vapor and caused to mingle with the steam, thus creating a highly-combustible vapor or gas, which will readily ignite at the burner-tip h as I 5 it escapes through the perforations 1' therein.

Having now fully described our invention, what we esteem as novel, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of throwing a continuous flood of steam in advance of the flame, through a steam conduit or pipe longitudinally adjusted and secured in a conical cylindrical hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner having a small neck and terminating in a hemispherical expanding head, and connected with a steanrboiler, onto the metal portion ofboilers, furnaces, &c., exposed to hydrocarbon-flame, whereby the exposed parts are kept moist, in a perspiration, and preserved from destruction by burning, substantially as shown and de scribed.

2. In a device as shown, the method of genera-ting hydrocarbon vapor by simultaneously introducing j ets of hydrocarbon and steam into 5 a common chamber and bringing them in contact with each other and with a metal tube therein kept hot by a continuous current of fresh steam, whereby the two, being retarded in their flow by the form of the chamber, are 4o thoroughly mingled and wholly vaporized, substantially as shown and described.

5:5. A conic cylindrical hydrocarboirvapor generator having a small neck, and provided with a hemispherical or saucer-shaped remov- 5 able head surmounted with a broad circular burner-tip provided with numerous perfora- "tions for the passage of vapor directed to one common center beyond,with a view to concentrating the flame at one point, in combination with a steam conduit and heating tube secured in the ends and adjusted longitudinally through the vap or-generating chamber, and arranged to pass beyond the burner-tip and point ofeommingling, for throwing a flood of steam onto the parts of metal, &c., exposed to the flame,

substantially as shown and described.

4. A conical cylindrical. hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner for furnaces and other mechanical purposes, having a small neck, and

provided with a removable hemispherical or saucenshaped head, in combination with a broad circular burner-tip having numerous perforations for the passage of the vapor directed to a common center beyond for concem trating the flame, a steam conduit and heating pipe secured in the ends and extending longitudinally through the vapor-generating chamber and the burnertip, and passing beyond the point of commingling, for throwing a flood of steam onto the metal exposed to the hydrocarbon-flame, and with the. perforated circular base-disk, substantially as shown and described.

5. In combination, broad burner-tip h, with perforationstending'to a common center, steam duct and heating pipe a, hemispherical top 9, conical cylinder 6, base 0, steam-induction pipe I), oil-induction pipe (I, and steam-pipe a in hydrocarbonburners, substantially as shown and described.

In hydrocarbon-vapor generators and burners, the combination of the conically shaped chamber 0, the broad burner-tip 71, hav-. ing numerous vapor-exit perforations i, tending to a common center, the steam conduit and heating pipe a, secured in the ends of the burner, passing longitudinally therethrough and extending beyond the burner-tip and in-;

duction steam and oil pipes, substantially as shown and described. I

7. In a hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner, the combination of conically-shaped cylinder 6, chamber 0, induction-pipes b 62, steam-heating pipe and conduit a, and burnertip 72, having perforations 'i, constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

8. In hydrocarbonburners, the combination of steam and oil induction pipes 11 and d, steamheating pipe (1, and steam-supply pipe a, chamber 6, cylinder 0, having a small neck, 6 hemispherical burncr-to'p g, broad burner-tip 71, and projecting end of steam-pipe a substantially as shown and described.

9. In a device for generating and burning hydrocarbons, as well as protecting boilers, furnaces, &c.,. against destruction by fire, in combination, steam-induction pipe I), having a stop cook or valve, f, oilinduction pipe d,

having stop cock or valve f, steam-supplypipe a, having valve], base of burner c, having small steam and oil perforations b and d, conicallyshaped cylinder 6, chamber 0, steam conduit a, hemispherical burner-top g, and perforated bu'rnentip h, constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described. In testimony whereof we hereby affix our signatures, in presence of twowitnesses, this 29th day of December, 1882. I

ISRAEL R. BLUMEN BERG. HENRY \V. \VHITING.

' 'itnesses:

A. P. RUTHERFORD, HENRY PoLsY. 

